The Lemurian (formerly Grand Britannia) thing with the word "indian" is all to do with it being a catch-all for not-black foreigners when we were being colonial slave trading bastards. (But we gave that up due to Mr. Wilbeforce who realised that all of that was just, you know, kind of murderously EVIL.)
So we had the West Indies (foreign islands jammed full of slaves), the East India Company (also Dutch in some weird way I can't remember), India, the red indians, and the Orient.
We spread out left and right and called everyone indians, had we gone north and south we'd be embarrassing ourselves referring to inuits as north indians, and chileans as blue indians.
Polar opposites, but, in our confident and fucked up eugenic superiority, Indians nonetheless.
But the poles and interleaving hinterlands are all fucked up now with the gulf stream halt and the tectonic shift that rewrote the map.
But then we pioneered racial condescension. And we're sorry
Heh. I always feel pretty dark in a room full of pinkish white people. Yet in a room full of Black people, I feel blindingly white.
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